The Best New Car & Bike Website is up!

If you like my blogs, please go to this new website!

At MyRideisMe.com, you'll find that we're auto and bike enthusiasts too! If you want to see bike and cars from around the world, take a look! We've even made special tools to help you search.

You can browse the garages by type:

Care Types
Classic Styles
Import Styles
New Styles
Off-Road
Race
Show
Project
Haulers
Kit
Countries

Motorcycle Types
American Iron
Café Racer
Chopper
Custom
Drag Bike
Enduro
German Cycles
Metric Cruiser
Motard
Off-Road
Race Bike
Race Replica
Sportbike
Touring
Track Bike
Trials

Or you can find people of similar interests by searching for Lifestyles:

Auto Lifestyles
Builder
Restorer
Old School
Tuner
Euro
Hot Rodder
Street Rodder
Custom Rodder
Build-It, Drive-It
HAMB
Low Rider
Show Cars
AMBR / Ridler
Club Racer
Track Only
Exotics
Off-Road/Dirt
Show Trucks

Motorcycle Lifestyles
American Iron
Biker
Club Racer
Custom
Old School
Café Racer
Euro
Stunterz
Touring
Track Only
Build-It, Ride-It
Restoration
Off-Road/Dirt
Women Riders
Scooters

Or by the Special Skills they use working on their rides... There's something for everyone.

The best part is the way we organize our pictures. Take a look! Have you ever been frustrated that you have to fumble thru 10 pages of stereo installation pictures to find a picture of the engine? Not at MyRideisMe.com!! Thanks for looking!

Learning - THE GIMP (photoediting)

I want to be a better photographer than I am now, that's for sure, but I've got a few decent shots. I like to take pictures of my car, then put crazy sunset's behind them. I'm just barely scratching the surface of what "The Gimp" software can do. If you like photo editing but don't have a year to learn Adobe Photoshop, try it out. Best of all, it's free! Here's a good tutorial page for it: Learn The Gimp
So here's what I started with. It's a good shot, I think.



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Vintage Drag Racing Photobook

I've found a book I've got to tell you about. It's called Speed Kings by the German Hot Rod & Pin-Up Photographer Dirk Behlau. Dirk was kind enough to let MyRideisMe.com use a photo he took, including Switzerland's premier pinup model Zoe Scarlett, for a promotional flier at Billetproof. Billetproof is a hardcore hot rod show happening September 15th in Antioch, California. While I rush to get this photo printed, I'll let Dirk describe the book in his own words:



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